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A.G. (Tassos) Malliaris is currently Professor of Economics and Finance at the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, where he holds the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Chair in Business Administration.  He specializes in global financial economics and has made several contributions in the area of futures markets, options markets, asset pricing and risk management. He is currently studying asset price bubbles and how they destabilize the financial and real sectors of an economy. He also studies the global financial system and its sources of financial instabilities.

He has authored and co-authored numerous articles in professional journals and has also co-authored with William A. Brock two books: Stochastic Methods in Economics and Finance and Differential Equations, Stability and Chaos in Dynamic Economics.  Another of his books, Foundations of Futures Markets was published in 1999. A collection of his recent papers appears in Economic Uncertainty, Instabilities and Asset Bubbles, published by World Scientific in 2005. In 2018, he co-edited a book with Douglas Evanoff and George Kaufman: Innovative Federal Reserve Policies During the Great Financial Crisis, published by World Scientific that was chosen for translation into Chinese. A recent book is The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: Hidden Factors in the Meltdown, Oxford University Press, 2016, co-edited by Leslie Shaw, and Hersh Shefrin. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary approach to economic and financial crises by studying them through economic, psychological and ethical dimensions. 

​He holds a B.A. in economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oklahoma and a second Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Chicago.